Kristy Horton’s second grade class at Heath Springs Elementary School will continue its bake sale from 10:30 a.m. to noon Dec. 9 to raise money to buy toys for children at Levine Children’s Hospital. Students will bring in baked goods, make posters to advertise and will work the bake sale. For details, call (803) 273-3176.

Lancaster County school board member James M. Brooks has been charged with methamphetamine trafficking after a 3 a.m. traffic stop in Indian Land.
Brooks and Carol Jean Broom, 37, of Fort Mill, were arrested early Saturday by Lancaster County sheriff’s deputies on Doby’s Bridge Road. Brooks had a substance believed to be meth in his jacket pocket, according to a sheriff’s office press release.

Texas-based CompuCom Systems Inc. is relocating its headquarters to Indian Land, bringing a $41 million capital investment and creating 1,500 jobs over the next five to seven years.
It’s the largest single job announcement in Lancaster County history, said Gov. Nikki Haley’s office.

It has been a busy two weeks of bad news at Kershaw Correctional Institution.
A guard and her husband were arrested Tuesday for conspiring to smuggle contraband into the prison following an investigation by the S.C. Department of Corrections and the Lancaster County Sheriff’s Office.
A week earlier, an inmate at KCI was stabbed by another inmate. He is recovering.

James M. Brooks resigned from the Lancaster County school board Friday afternoon, effective immediately, a week after he was charged with methamphetamine trafficking.
“It is with regret that I tender my resignation," Brooks said in a letter to school board Chairman Bobby Parker. "Due to the negative publicity of the allegations against me, it is in the best interest of the students of Lancaster County and my fellow board members for me to step down.

More than 100 volunteers will converge on neighborhoods in the Clinton Elementary School attendance zone Saturday to begin revitalization efforts as part of the Lancaster Pride Promise Neighborhood project.